Merkel-SPD Talks on Coalition Deadlock on Minimum Wage
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Social Democrats deadlocked on labor issues including setting a national minimum wage, jeopardizing their self-imposed deadline of forging a coalition deal in seven days.
Merkel’s Christian Democrats, their CSU Bavarian sister party and the SPD collided over “areas of true dissent” on a minimum wage, CSU General Secretary Alexander Dobrindt told reporters in Berlin yesterday.